Bashayer Abdullah

After KAUST Academy

Bashayer graduated in computer science, AI track, from King Khalid University with second honors in February 2026. As of October 2026, Bashayer works at Tuwaiq Academy. Bashayer's team received recognition from the Saudi Space Agency for the Suha project, and a paper was accepted at a computer graphics conference.

Summer project

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2025

SAFA A Real-Time Edge AI Voice Assistant for Pilgrims using RAG

Summary:If the students are interested in pursuing this project, I will lend them a Raspberry pi. The microphone will feed the voice into the raspberry pi in real-time so it will convert the voice into words. The words will be processed on Raspberry pi using a quantized Llama 3 model. The model's output can be then reconverted into voice.Students can interactively show their system during posters session.Applications:iver assistant (e.g. navigation interaction), blind people assistance if integrated with a camera … etc.Proof-of-concept:Preliminary system was tested on interactive words only. The quantized (i.e. compressed) Llama3 was installed on Raspberry pi 4 and interactive conversiation were done with it.Extensions students can do:Students will get the system on and running (installed quantized Llama3) as a first stage. Next stages may include adding a microphone where the student will convert voice into words using another DNN model.

Mentor: Mojtaba AlShams

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